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* ATLAS is an acronym for Association for Tourism and Leisure Education, a European educational project
* AOTUS is also the acronym for the Archivist of the United States
* Anglo-Saxon Protestant, as part of the acronym WASP, for White Anglo-Saxon Protestant
* AW, acronym for Tropical savanna climate in the Köppen classification system
" BASE " is an acronym that stands for four categories of fixed objects from which one can jump: buildings, antennas, spans ( bridges ), and earth ( cliffs ).
As an acronym, it stands for Bourne-again shell, referring to its objective as a free replacement for the Bourne shell.
Capitalised, BASIC is sometimes taken as an acronym that stands for British American Scientific International Commercial.
* BMI, acronym for Broadcast Music, Inc., a collecting society for composers ' copyrights
COINTELPRO ( an acronym for Counterintelligence Program ) was a series of covert, and often illegal, projects conducted by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) aimed at surveying, infiltrating, discrediting, and disrupting domestic political organizations.
The global youth movement is known as NOAM ( an acronym for No ' ar Masorti ); its North American chapter is called the United Synagogue Youth.
Its name is an acronym for COmmon Business-Oriented Language, defining its primary domain in business, finance, and administrative systems for companies and governments.
Using the SAFE strategy ( acronym for surgery for in-growing or in-turned lashes, antibiotics, facial cleanliness, and environmental improvements ), the World Health Organisation aims for the global elimination of trachoma by 2020 ( GET 2020 initiative ).
PID is an acronym for Proportional-Integral-Derivative, referring to the three terms operating on the error signal to produce a control signal.
* CNS is a short acronym in musical jargon to reference the catalog numbering systems for single records
* ( Hanukkah ) is also the Hebrew acronym for — " Eight candles, and the halakha is like the House of Hillel ".
Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications ( Digital European Cordless Telecommunications ), usually known by the acronym DECT, is a digital communication standard, which is primarily used for creating cordless phone systems.
The acronym BIND is for Berkeley Internet Name Domain, from a technical paper published in 1984.
Decca employees used to joke that DECCA was an acronym for Dedicated Englishmen Causing Chaos Abroad.
Euphoria is an acronym for " End-User Programming with Hierarchical Objects for Robust Interpreted Applications " although there is some suspicion that this is a backronym.

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In 2002, a group of students founded a computing club called FIG ( a recursive acronym for FIG Is Good ).
The French dub is known as " BéCéBéGé " ( alternate title: " Le Club BCBG ") which is derived from the French acronym " BCBG " which stands for " Bon Chic, Bon Genre " (" Good Style, Good Class ").
" For example, cGMP is an acronym for " current Good Manufacturing Practices.

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The term BDSM was coined as a condensed acronym in the 1990s to combine communities and practices that had a significant amount of crossover – bondage and discipline ( B & D or B / D ), dominance and submission ( D & S or D / s ), and sadomasochism or sadism and masochism ( S & M or S / M ).
The phrase " What you see is what you get ", from which the acronym derives, was a catchphrase popularized by Flip Wilson's drag persona " Geraldine " ( from Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In in the late 1960s and then on The Flip Wilson Show until 1974 ).
* MENA, an acronym for the " Middle East & North Africa " region
The acronym S & M is often used for sadomasochism, although practitioners themselves normally drop the & and use the acronym SM or S / M.
On September 1, 2010, the Asia Pacific versions of Discovery Travel & Living was relaunched as TLC, with the acronym standing for " Travel and Living Channel ".
A & W is a three-letter acronym that may refer to:
Previously, shirts had simply been embroidered with the club's acronym ' CUFC ' or a ' Book & Ball ' badge used during the late 70's.
As a backronym, it is has been taken to stand for Digital Bibliography & Library Project, however it is now preferred that the acronym be simply a name, hence the new title " The DBLP Computer Science Bibliography ".
The acronym V & S comes from the name Vin & Sprit, literally meaning " Wine & Spirits.
In the United States, Bunzlauer ware was often marketed under the labels of " Blue Mountain Pottery " or " Erphila ," the acronym of the Philadelphia retailer Eberling & Reuss.
The name is an acronym for " Adventure Development & Runner-Interactive Fiction Toolkit ".
White notes that " incidentally " Valentine was the middle name of Sir John V. Carden, the man who was responsible for many tank designs including that of Valentine's predecessor, the A10 .. Another version says that Valentine is an acronym for Vickers-Armstrong Ltd Elswick & ( Newcastle-upon ) Tyne.
* Later in the year Jeremy Mortimer from GreenNet helped PeaceNet Sweden ; Scott Weikart & Joanne Scott from IGC helped Nicarao in Nicaragua and Steve Frame helped Alternex ( the communications branch of IBASE, the Portuguese acronym of the Brazilian Institute for Social and Economic Analysis ) and Mike Jensen from WEB to Pegasus Australia.
After another string of shorties and returning to Circus Herman Renz on a part-time basis, Bassie & Adriaan spent 1986 taping a new series featuring the new crooks, except that Ping Poen was replaced with B2 whose poor hearing kept him in prison when B1 and BB ( acronym for Boevenbaas ) escaped.
KT & G is an acronym for Korea Tomorrow and Global, not Korea Tobacco and Ginseng.
DOTS is an acronym for Distance & Orientation Trail System.
The D. E. S. T. ( an acronym of or " German Earth & Stone Works Company "), was an SS owned company originally created to procure and manufacture building materials for state construction projects in Nazi Germany DEST was a subsidiary company of Amtsgruppe W ( Amt. W ) of SS-Wirtschafts-und Verwaltungshauptamt ( WVHA ).

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This spawned the related acronym qualgo, a ' quasi-autonomous local government organisation '.
Solitary confinement is colloquially referred to in American English as the ' hotbox ', the ' hole ', ' lockdown ', ' SCU ' ( Solitary Confinement Unit ), ' AdSeg ' ( Administrative Segregation ), the ' SHU ' ( pronounced ' shoe ')— an acronym for security housing unit, or the ' pound '; and in British English as the ' block ' or the ' cooler '.
A-POC is an acronym of ' a piece of cloth ', and a near homonym of ' epoch '.
It has been suggested that the term YOMP is an acronym ( or backronym ) for ' Your Own Marching Pace '.
" FE " is an acronym for ' Ford-Edsel '.
However the DMS acronym was mellifluous and was eventually ( 1975 ) adopted as the designation for the DMS-10 and DMS-100 family of products, with the ' S ' standing for ' system ' rather than ' switch '.
Also in 1974 Tattersall and Fajans coined the acronym MODY which was defined as ' fasting hyperglycaemia diagnosed under age 25 which could be treated without insulin for more than two years '.
TRMPAC is an acronym for ' Texans for a Republican Majority Political Action Committee '.
It is also known by the acronym qtrle in ffmpeg, and its fourCC is ' rle '.
A recent neologistic acronym, gaining use, is ' mentor to child '.
Porthcurno is still known colloquially by the acronym ' PK ' being represented in Morse code as ' di-dah-dah-dit ' followed by ' dah-di-dah '.
Nama, or NAMA, is the acronym for Narodni magazin ' national store '.
" Netzer " is an acronym in Hebrew for Reform Zionist Youth ( Noar Tsioini Reformi, נוער ציוני רפורמי ), and Netzer Olami means ' Global Netzer '.
" The computer is somewhat cumbersome in its reply to certain inquiries, but the real reason for its name is it is an acronym of ' The Terminal of Waveline Interception and Transmission '.
Wizbit came from the planet WOW, an acronym for ' World Of Wizards '.
The acronym is derived from the Dutch phrase " Bewust Onbeschonken Bestuurder " which translates to " Conscious Non-Drunk Driver " or ' deliberately sober driver '.

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